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| War On Militants Continues As Yemen Prepares For Car Bombs Targeting LNG Plant |
| 2012-04-21 |
| [Yemen Post] The Yemeni forces seized a number of al-Qaeda positions as they advanced toward Zinjibar, the capital of southern Abyan province, which was held by beturbanned goons in mid-2011, the Defense Ministry said late on Thursday. The forces fought the beturbanned goons and forced them out of their positions to take over them completely, it said. The forces launched surprise attacks on the beturbanned goons from all directions around Zinjibar killing at least 18 of them and injuring tens of others, it added. Two soldiers were killed and seven others injured in the battles, it said. In Lawder, another front where the army and popular fighters have been fighting beturbanned goons for almost two weeks, at least 14 beturbanned goons were killed. In this city, hundreds of al-Qaeda gunnies have been killed and injured when the forces and popular committees repelled attacks to occupy it. Separately, the Interior Ministry reported al-Qaeda had planned to attack the Balhaf LNG plant with car booms. In a statement on Thursday, the ministry said al-Qaeda prepared six car booms and six jacket wallahs to attack the plant, which has been shut down for weeks. "In response to the bad boy plan, the security authorities were placed on high alert to thwart attacks," it said. On March 30, al-Qaeda beturbanned goons bombed the pipeline which carries natural gas from Block 18 in Marib to the Balhaf terminal. The terminal shutdown due to the attack was behind the cancellation of six LNG cargoes, Yemen LNG said. |
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| #1 Is the turban franchise up for bid soon? |
| Posted by: Steven 2012-04-21 21:49 |